Sunday, March 03, 2013

It's All A Number's Game!

Happy Monday Crafters! It's that time again...a new Simon Says Stamp & Show Challenge! Design team member Danthought, "Why not a challenge about Numbers?" You can challenge yourself to use a specific number of items, use number stamps, stencils or paper with numbers on it. You can create a layout with a top five list or journal your top ten favorite things. You could use a ticket stamp, a color-by-number item with some Copic or Distress markers. The list could go on and on. So keep numbers in mind this week, and come join in our challenge!

I love numbers and always have. Numbers are perfect and make sense to me, and there is only ever one right answer (Even though I often get it wrong!)...no gray areas! Although, I do like gray areas, especially in Art, it's nice to have definitives in life. 1+1 will always be 2...um, right???

I also love games, probably because most involve numbers. Poker, Gin, Rummy, Yahtzee, Dominoes...love them! And although I am horrible at it, I am ashamed to say I am mesmerized by Roulette! I wish I was smart enough to remember all the probability involved to pick the right number and color combination, but the spinning of the wheel is very therapeutic for me anyway. What can I say...I'm a cheap date!

Anyway...off tangent...I've made this box to house the many decks of cards we have because my husband can't bare to have the decks of cards be thrown away at his local men's club after they use them like twice, so he brings them home. So we will be able to store many decks and score pads in this to use in our own card games and it will look fab sitting on the coffee table. I really love how it came out.

El cheapo wooden box from the dollar store.

I crackled it with some spray paints, and got it all ready to be decoupaged on.

Soooo many Stamper's Anonymous stamps...new and soooo old were stamped. A few I had never even used yet if you can believe it. I stamped in three different colors of Archival (Jet Black, Vermillion, Pale Ochre) first onto Specialty Stamping Paper to make two ATC's to fit into the framed holes making a collage of the images. I did this on one side of the box, and on the other I did a smaller collaged image to use as the body for the game ladies seen below.

I stamped all the images onto plain tissue paper in Vermillion and Jet Black. I cut these out and used Glue N Seal to adhere to the box.

Here you can see the smaller image used for the body of the Game Ladies. After I decoupaged the images, I colored them in using Distress Markers and permanent markers. I finished the box by adding lose game pieces to adorn it, making handles and feet as well.

Do you love numbers? Do you collect things with numbers on them? Do you love to create things with numbers? If so, create your work of Art and enter it into our challenge. You just might be the lucky winner of a $50 voucher to Simon Says Stamp. You can also be named as one of the "Top Three Picks" for this challenge. Good luck, and please visit the other DT member's blogs. There are numerous fabulous projects from this week. No one scored a zero!

Anita...this is a very very VERY cool box, girlfriend! I love the crackling on your el cheapo box! All of your stamped and colorized tissue images look so amazing how you have laid them out and decoupaged them onto your box. Love the chess piece feet! You're just crazy talented, girlfriend! LOVE this! <3 Candy

WOW!! Amazing box Anita, the crackle effect is Brilliant, Love the stamping of the images & numbers...I lOVE THIS BOX...I bet hubby does too...Thank you so much for the fabulous inspiration.. you are soooooo talented!! Hugs May x x x

Hi Anita, this is absolutely fabulous!! The crackling is superb, the images are perfect and I love how you added the handles and the fabulous feet. You are such a wonderfully talented lady... Hugs, Anne x

Hi Anita, I love your games box, I particularly love your games person you added to the aperture and how the legs appear on the inside too, very clever. Love the crackle and all your added games pieces. Inspired piece. Oh you asked a question in my blog, I stamped the face on tissue then turned it over to get the reverse. Enjoy your week. Tracy x

This box made me laugh out loud. It is that cool! The crackled background works beautifully with the stamping and game pieces. Those people with the amazing body parts and collaged trunks are such a treat. Love the colour palette you have chosen...you have such an eye for that and also for knowing where to include the colour. The feet are so Alice in Wonderland awesome. Love every detail!!

Wow! This box is amazing. I love it :) So beautiful colors and gorgerous elemnts. I love the dice and the theme of the card is brilliant. Finish the whole box is fantastic I love the cracks. They are so cool. Greetings Asia :)

Wow, wow, wow... how completely fantastic!! I love all the body parts spreadeagled around the place, and the crackle is fab, and the colours are great, and the dice are so cute as handles - love all the gamepieces and dominoes... this is beyond brilliant, Anita, and so much fun!!Alison x

Anita, This has to be the most brilliant use of game pieces I've ever seen. The chess pieces as feet and the dice as handles! Awesome. What a fun box to store all those cards. Who would have thought to create such a useful project. You of course you clever girl! A+++++++++Hugs Lynn

How fabulous! I want to come play cards.... and I'm a bit of a shark, I warn you. LOVE what you've done here. The stamps are all so wonderful and it's especially impressive how you were able to get the SA gal to hold on to all the different surfaces... amazingly cool!!!

You go girl! This game box is fantastic. Love how you stamped the images on tissue and glued them down-looks like you painted them. The game pieces for feet and handles is very clever. Thanks for sharing!

SO MUCH to LOVE here Anita!! The chess piece feet, the decoupaging, the whole theme and choice of stamps. What a talented and creative star you are. Thanks for sharing so much inspiration. Hugs, Jenny x

Well, you've done it again, Anita! Left me totally gobsmacked. What an amazing project...the crackle effect is fab. The game ladies are fab squared...the game pieces are fab to the third power....the chessmen feet is fab plus fab! The whole project is fab to the 10th degree! Honestly, there is so much ingenuity and creativity and innovation and ART inside that head of yours. I hereby crown you the Queen of Altered Art. And it all started with an elcheapo box from the Dollar Store. Wow! Pinned.

Wow, this is fabulous. I love the crackled background and the tissue paper stamping. Just perfect for a card box! I love numbers too and for exactly the same reason you do - you know where you are with them, right or wrong lol! Thankyou so much for the kind comment you left on my blog. It is much appreciated. Maddy x

You must have sat for hours to create this absolutely stunning piece ... see how green I am with envy? LOL No, really, what a treasure. It totally rocks, I love all those many beautiful details. Suzanne x

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